Birthday: December 24, 1922

Ava Gardner began her career first as a model, then as a contract player at MGM, where her gawky, unsophisticated demeanor was totally made over by the studio into an image of inaccessible glamour. Gardner toiled in tiny bit roles, finally getting a worthwhile one on loan-out to Universal in The Killers (1946). MGM was never very comfortable with the bad-girl persona she ...more
  • 1953
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
  • Best Actress
  • Mogambo
  • nom
  • 1985
  • A.D.
  • Agrippina


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